this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a tougher three—tiered system of local restrictions will come into force in england when the lockdown ends in ten days‘ time, but there'll be a relaxation over christmas. pubs and restaurants in england could be allowed to stay open longer with an easing of the 10pm curfew. the nhs in england is to get an extra £3 billion, but the chancellor warns of tough times ahead for the economy as the country deals with the consequences of the pandemic. the economy is experiencing significant stress. we have seen that in the labour market and in people'sjobs.

a covid curfew kicks in in california as the us passes more than 12 million confirmed cases. french police use tear gas on anti—government protestors over a bill that could make it an offence to photograph police officers. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. here in the uk, a new plan to lift england's lockdown from the 2nd of december will be finalised by government ministers today. the national lockdown will be lifted, but a new tougher version of the three—tiered system of restrictions will replace it. even the lowest level will be much

stricter than before as experts warn that it just wasn't working to control infection rates. our political correspondent, leila nathoo, reports. what will christmas look like this year? we'll soon find out. tomorrow, borisjohnson will confirm to parliament that england is coming out of national lockdown on the 2nd of december and going back into regional tiers of coronavirus restrictions. the system will be stricter this time round with more areas under tighter rules. leicester's had tough restrictions for months and infection rates are still high. it's what it is, we've got to keep on with it and it'll be all right in the end, as they say. i'm just finding it very frustrating and, maybe i'm wrong, but ijust think, if everybody kept to the rules, it might be better. she laughs. ministers will decide on thursday which areas will go into which tier, but, across all tiers, there will be special arrangements to allow families to meet over christmas and a four—nation approach

is still being discussed. we all want to see our loved ones again, but some are concerned about the consequences. you want to expose those who are vulnerable in your home? and if you are going to go ahead, what other steps you can take, can you meet them outside or ventilate the room is? can you make sure you quarantine for two weeks so you are not incubating the virus? virus does not ca re incubating the virus? virus does not care it's christmas, it'll keep spreading it has happened in canada with canadian thanksgiving, so it's telling people, we now how the virus transmits, how much risk you willing to ta ke transmits, how much risk you willing to take with your family loved ones? the cabinet will meet today to discuss the plans and mps will vote on whether to bring in the new system. labour said it would look closely at the proposals but said the new framework must bring certainty for businesses. ministers are stressing this festive

period won't be normal but hope that vaccines and mass testing will offer a route towards relaxing restrictions further. leila nathoo, bbc news. well, the chancellor, rishi sunak, has been speaking to the bbc this morning, and our political correspondent, helen catt, discussed with me a little earlier what he said. these national lockdown restrictions in england expire on the 2nd of december so there is debate about what would come after those on boris johnson has always said he wants to return to that regional system but earlier this week the director of public health england suggested the lower tiers have not worked to stem the spread of transmission so it would look like they would need to beat them up, make this restriction stronger, that's the message we are getting this morning, so at the moment we don't know what the specific measures are likely to be, borisjohnson will set specific measures are likely to be, boris johnson will set the matter specific measures are likely to be, borisjohnson will set the matter in parliament tomorrow, the cabinet meeting to discuss them and sign them off. we don't know exactly what those measures will be but the indication is it will be tougher, particularly if you were living in

an area of england in lower level of restrictions. there is one particular measure, though, where it seems there might be loosening on the cards, and that is that controversial tempe curfew for pubs, bars and restaurants, businesses don't like it and neither do tory mps, that is the understatement of the year, and we understand that borisjohnson is likely the year, and we understand that boris johnson is likely to the year, and we understand that borisjohnson is likely to amend it so borisjohnson is likely to amend it so that tempe and would become a last orders call on people would have an hour to finish eating and drinking up. the chancellor appeared to add confirmation to this suggestion that that is being looked at. it is definitely something we are looking at and one of the things we have been able to do as we learn is get data, see what works and see where we can improve things. it's fairto where we can improve things. it's fair to say when we introduce the curfew that was something that was in common with many other countries and cities around the world as we have learnt more there are opportunities for us to look and refine things and that is on our

list. that was the chancellor talking to andrew marr, what about christmas? there has been a lot of speculation, borisjohnson christmas? there has been a lot of speculation, boris johnson wants christmas? there has been a lot of speculation, borisjohnson wants to give people a christmas present and relax the rules for a few days. he does, and it is the question i am getting asked the most. and boris johnson has said he will spell out tomorrow. so far downing street has been tight—lipped about what will be allowed. there is a suggestion there will be special arrangements, the thinking behind that, jake berry was explaining this morning that if they don't people just ignore the rules a nyway don't people just ignore the rules anyway and once people get into the habit of breaking the rules it's harder to then enforce them later so there is definitely some sense of some special arrangements although ministers have been clear it will not be a free all normal crisps, it will be restrictions in place. they said they also want to coordinate with northern ireland, scotland, wales and england so there are similar sets of rules in place, although we don't know if that has

been achieved yet. and what about the politics of this? quite a lot of tory mps have said they are not happy with a return to taft tiered restrictions. the row is brewing over christmas dinners will be nothing compared to what we will see the comments this week. tory mps have been resistant to tighter restrictions, a group of 70 have written to the prime minister and said they cannot support more tiered restrictions unless he can show it will stop the spread of the virus, but also there has been some assessment made of the impact that we had on people on their health, for reasons not covid, so that's a big number of conservative mps and we have seen it kicking off in the comments about this before. so if these restrictions will get through, if they will not vote for them, which is not a given, then the prime minister would have to rely on

labour's vote, so would labour back in whatever? that was put to the shadow chancellor this morning. will you vote for government proposals whatever happens? no, because we need to see the detail of those proposals. we really expect government needs to have learned from what has happened previously, all the problems we have had previously, we did not have a clear syste m previously, we did not have a clear system of restrictions, there was a huge amount of ambiguity, and the economic support trailed the announcement of those restrictions, meaning that there is a situation where we have seen record redundancies across our country over the last quarter, businesses have gone bust, that didn't need to, because of those problems, so we expect the prime minister should provide something more robust on wednesday. there will be a lot riding on what the specifics of these restrictions will be. we will find this out tomorrow when the prime minister addresses parliament andi prime minister addresses parliament and i think we will have quite a lot of debate over them for the coming

days. as we've been hearing, it's understood there'll be special arrangements for the festive period, and the government has confirmed it's considering getting rid of the 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants. we can speak now to kate nicholls, chief executive for ukhospitality. your reaction to what you have heard so your reaction to what you have heard so far about what will the national lockdown in england? we are concerned about exactly what those restrictions are and which parts of the country will be in which tears, and we are concerned the talk is all about strengthening the existing restrictions, moving more parts of the country to higher tiers, having a severe impact on our businesses and their ability to trade so it could well be unless we get the details right we have a technical opening the 2nd of december but in reality many of those businesses will simply be unviable if the

restrictions at utah. we have heard that pubs and restaurants can stay open beyond 10pm, that mpm would be last orders. would you welcome that? that is helpful, it's a common—sense approach, something we have been talking about with the government since they introduce the idea of a cu rfew, since they introduce the idea of a curfew, allowing a last orders approach with a dispersal brings us into line with most of the curfews across the world and certainly across the world and certainly across europe and it allows for a gradual dispersal without making matters worse, so you have avoided some of the health problems that came with the curfews itself but on its own and coupled with a tightening of restrictions it is not a material enough change to give businesses greater scope to make money during december and to switch the dialfrom being unviable money during december and to switch the dial from being unviable to viable, so we will need to look at those tiered systems carefully to see if there is any more that can be

done. the biggest impact economically on our businesses is the ban on mixed household socialising so a reintroduction of the rule of six in the same way we have had in wales will be absolutely critical to making sure that more businesses can survive over the new year period otherwise we fear that a large number of them will simply close their doors for good. the government is saying, when we do hear the details, this is their winter plan, so this is a plan potentially for months. yes, and thatis potentially for months. yes, and that is a big concern. we need to see an exit strategy for getting out of the tiered system, for removing and easing restrictions. it sounds as though their winter economic plan is brutality alone will be asked to bear the burden of restrictions and we will not look at changes before february and we know that for our businesses those in tier 2 who have those tough restrictions are no mixed household socialising is they are forced to bear those restrictions until february and then

7496 restrictions until february and then 74% of them say they will not be viable and will become insolvent before the end of that period without further support so it's vital we get these businesses open and trading with as few restrictions as we possibly can, notjust through december into march as well. desperately difficult times for the hospitality sector in this country. how does it compare to other countries around europe in the world and the way that it is varying? hospitality struggling across the world and there are restrictions across the world. the big difference is in parts of europe where we have had is in parts of europe where we have ha d cu rfews is in parts of europe where we have had curfews they have only been by major cities, not nationwide, so smaller independent rural, coastal pubs and restaurants have been able to thrive more, and crucially they have always had an hour's dispersal and later curfew time so that's really helpful. more importantly the support package has been a longer term support package right the way through next year in most cases and in places like germany, holland, the

netherlands, belgium, they have had funding that covers a proportion of their lost turnover, so those businesses are not losing out, the gra nts businesses are not losing out, the grants are far more significant than in the uk, and if we are going to see long—term restrictions we will need to increase the level of support that goes through to deal with that cash flow crisis that many are facing otherwise three quarters are facing otherwise three quarters are not viable by february. coronavirus cases in the united states continue to soar. there are more than 12 million confirmed infections — up byi million in less than a week. california has introduced a state—wide overnight curfew to try to curb the surge there. officials in los angeles warn they are close to reaching the number of daily cases that means residents have to stay at home all the time. the us is setting new records each day for the number of new infections. 195,500 new cases were

recorded on friday. the daily death toll linked to covid—i9 has passed 2,000 people for the first time since may. over the past week, there has been an average of more than 170,000 cases per day — that's an increase of 67% — and the covid tracking project reports more than 83,000 people are hospitalized across the country. here's our north america correspondent, david willis. california, america's most populous state, is reeling from a resurgence of the coronavirus and its health workers are struggling to cope. the number of new infections here has more than doubled in the last two weeks, prompting an overnight curfew. this is not really surprising. i think this was sort of expected. i think there's this kind of restriction fatigue or lockdown fatigue, a pandemic fatigue that is taking place so many of the people are not adhering to what the public health

people are really recommending. a total of around 37 million people are subject to california's new stay at home order which prohibits nonessential activity outside the home during the hours of darkness. lawmakers hope the move will curb the sudden surge in positive test results. the coronavirus turned the g20 summit in riyadh into a sort of vip webinar, one in which president trump briefly participated, but he missed a sideline event at the conference devoted to pandemic preparedness in favour of heading for the golf course, pursuing what has become a weekend routine since the election of golfing and tweeting, making this claim about how joe biden would deal with developing a vaccine.

yet last week's coronavirus press briefing was the first in months and the head of the task force, vice president mike pence, left without taking questions. president—elect biden, seen here attending church near his home, says tackling the coronavirus will be his number one priority but the longer the transition process is delayed the longer it will take him and his team to obtain the briefings they need. until the general services administration ascertains the results of the election which would allow the transition from the trump administration to the biden administration to proceed, until that happens, our hands are really tied, we're handcuffed. with discussions over another economic stimulus plan stalled and congress in recess, the forthcoming holiday season promises to be a bleak one for many.

long lines have formed at food banks here and around the country and the coronavirus is promising to make this year's thanksgiving celebration unlike any other. the trump campaign has lost one of its last remaining legal avenues in its slew of challenges to the election result, this time in the crucial battleground state of pennsylvania. judge matthew brann, a conservative republican, has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to invalidate 7 million mail—in votes. judge brann said...

in one court case after another, mr trump's lawyers have failed to show they have legal grounds to overturn his loss in the presidential election. the latest result paves the way for pennsylvania to certify joe biden‘s win this week. he leads by more than 80,000 votes. in the middle of a coronavirus lockdown, french police have clashed with anti—government demonstrators protesting against a bill that could make it an offence to film or photograph police officers. officers used water cannons in paris and tear gas in the south—eastern city of lyon. paul hawkins reports. saturday night in the french capital, and some protesters were still on the streets. rights activists, trade unionists and journalists, just some of the several thousand demonstrators who had spent the day voicing their opposition to a new law. the piece of legislation would make it a crime to circulate an image

of a police officer's face with the intention they should be harmed. translation: what this government is trying to do is for us to stop carrying out this vigilance. for citizens, whistle—blowers, forjournalists in possession or not of a press card. to be more and more hindered in revealing the failings of the state. and if that happens, it is the end of democracy. we know that police officers are victims of violence, yes. but when police are out on theirjob, they represent the french republic, they are not there as individuals. they represent the state and so there is a kind of wide impunity and it is very serious so we can't just shut up and allow this. the new law comes after a summer of mass public protests against police brutality and accusations of systemic racism sparked by the death of george floyd in the us. activists have alleged police brutality was responsible

for the killing of adama traore, a frenchman of malian origin who died after his arrest in the paris suburbs in 2016. a private autopsy said he died of asphyxiation. injune, the official health report said he died of heart failure, clearing three police officers of responsibility. they also point to cedric chouviat, a delivery driver in paris. he suffered a heart attack and died in january after police put him in a chokehold. but supporters of the new law say police officers and their families need protection from harassment, both online and in—person when off duty. those caught would get a maximum penalty of one year injail and a $53,000 fine. in light of the protests, the government has amended the law to add the phrase, "without prejudice to the right to inform". prime ministerjean castex said this would remove any ambiguity on the intention to guarantee respect for public freedoms while better protecting those police and gendarmes who ensure the protection of the population.

freedom to report versus freedom from harassment. the government says both are possible. paul hawkins, bbc news. the uk government is being urged to change the rules over who is eligible for financial support if they have to self—isolate. people on low incomes in england can apply for a grant of £500 if they are contacted directly by track and trace staff, but those who only receive a message from the nhs app don't qualify. here's our political correspondent, nick eardley. this is oliver, who lives with his family of seven in dorset. and this is the message he got earlier this month telling him to self—isolate. but because it was through the nhs app, oliver didn't qualify for support. after a lot of chasing around, it turns out that i'm not entitled to the financial support, and i want to follow their guidelines.

but then they sort of leave me in the lurch a bit without the financial support. we're a young family and this time of year, let alone just christmas, it's a rough time of year for everybody and it's been a rough year for everybody. to have that financial burden put on top of us as well, i feel a massive injustice with it. the government does offer a grant of £500 for many people on low incomes who can't work because they've been told to stay at home by test & trace. but many people are falling through the gaps, like parents who are forced to stay at home while their children self—isolate and those using the app. we know that generally people want to do the right thing and that's why they come to us to see what they are eligible for. but ultimately people are facing an impossible choice often. they are taking a big hit in their incomes if they can't work from home and if they do need to self—isolate but they still have the bills to pay, they still have food shopping to do, they still have children they need

to care for and that's putting them in an incredibly difficult position. we would like the government to look again and see what else they can do to make sure people can do the right thing. ijust want to reach out to everybody... the prime minister is self—isolating just now himself. i know how frustrating it can be... here he is in a message released by number 10 yesterday. labour are calling for him to fix what they call a broken system and offer more support. other charities have raised concerns, too, saying loopholes are making it harderfor people to do the right thing. good afternoon and welcome to today's downing street coronavirus briefing. on friday, the health secretary was asked about support for parents who had to stay at home to look after the children. and we have put in place a system of support so that if you have to isolate and you are eligible for benefits and universal credit then you can access a £500 support payment for the period that you have to isolate for. the government has now told us it is looking at ways to expand the scheme to cover the app

but others want to support to go further. ethiopia's prime minister, abiy ahmed, who won the nobel peace prize, is facing a civil war. the country's northern tigray region has been engulfed in a conflict for the last three weeks between the government and tigray‘s leaders. yesterday, mr ahmed refused efforts by the african union to mediate, choosing instead to send in troops. in a tweet, mr ahmed warned that the he would do "all that is necessary to ensure stability" in tigray. hundreds of people have been killed and more than 30,000 refugees have fled to sudan since fighting began. the prime minsiter‘s senior advisor spoke to our correspondent and said negotions with tigray was not an option.

we don't negotiate with criminals. when it comes to criminals, we bring them to justice, not to a negotiation table, and this has been the declared stated conscience of the government. i think our african brothers and sisters would play the most significant role if they put pressure on the tplf to surrender. if the envoys are not able to travel to tigray to meet with the tplf, how will they be convinced to surrender? so, just going back to that point, can they travel, once they come to addis and meet with the prime minister, can they also go to tigray? tigray is currently under military occupation. we believe that the military operation will come to an end soon. if the tplf wants to put an end to the current conflict, all they have to do is surrender and, for that, nobody needs to go to mekelle to make that point clear to them.

people been treated in hospital. six people are being treated in hospital — one for a serious head injury and three for what's believed to be stab wounds — after a large fight in the centre of cardiff in wales. police were called to queen street just before 10pm yesterday. they arrested two people on suspicion of violent disorder. latex gloves have been — quite literally — a life—saver during this pandemic. but they also pose a serious environmental problem. standard latex takes around 100 years to decompose. now a team of scientists believe they have come up with a solution, as our science correspondent richard westcott reports. the world pulls on 150 billion

pairs of protective latex gloves every year. most are synthetic and end up in landfill for decades. it's a huge environmental problem and covid's making it worse, which is why scientists at cra nfield university in bedfordshire are developing a new type of natural latex that's better for the planet. this is synthetic latex, made from petroleum, it biodegrades in about 100 years. this is natural latex from rubber trees, still hangs around for a couple of years. this is the new kind of rubber latex they're developing in this lab and they say it could biodegrade in a matter of weeks. it's a version of natural latex but without the allergens so people won't be allergic to them. they'll also be much quicker to make, but the biggest benefit could be to our carbon footprint. there is a fantastic opportunity, richard. if we go into natural latex, which is produced by rubber trees, from carbon dioxide, water and sun energy,

we will be able to have a real impact on the environment. approximately 50% of the excessive carbon, atmospheric carbon, could be turned into rubber gloves. that's staggering, that's a staggering figure. half of the excess carbon potentially taken out of the atmosphere if we just swapped over to these gloves? yes, but we would have to turn it into natural rubber gloves, and that means quite a lot of latex to produce and deliver from the plantations. the project is funded by a big medical company about to start producing the new gloves in malaysia. it had hoped to open a uk factory next year. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. we are looking at a brighter day for most parts of the uk with sunny spells in the forecast, but it will

feel cooler for most areas with temperatures 3—4 lower, and a few showers around for northern ireland and scotland with the winds pushing those showers through the central belt. you might even find a few in edinburgh. for the most part, temperatures 8—10 c. cooler and brighterfor most temperatures 8—10 c. cooler and brighter for most of us. overnight showers become confined to north—west scotland and it becomes dry, clear spells in light winds allowing for us to develop, particularly in the countryside. a cold start to the day on monday. cold but bright on monday morning with spells of sunshine, but further changes as the day goes by. it turns cloudy and resting areas with outbreaks of rain getting into northern ireland and western scotland. quite cool across eastern scotla nd scotland. quite cool across eastern scotland and eastern england but turning milderfrom the scotland and eastern england but turning milder from the south—west later.

a tougher three—tiered system of local restrictions will come into force in england when the lockdown ends in ten days' time — but there'll be a relaxation over christmas. pubs and restaurants in england could be allowed to stay open longer — with an easing of the 10pm curfew. the nhs in england is to get an extra three billion pounds, but the chancellor warns of tough times ahead for the economy, as the country deals with the consequences